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A page from the Gutenberg Bible printed in blackletter type, featuring two columns of Latin text with headings Liber VI and Pars II at the top. The page edges are yellowed with age. Illuminated manuscript The Gould Hours by Marc Coussin open to pages with Latin script, intricate floral borders, and a colorful religious scene in a decorated frame. Open illuminated manuscript showing two pages of French text in columns, each topped with a colorful miniature illustration and decorative border, from Le Miroir de Humaine Saluation. Franciscan missal Antiphonarium Basiliense, printed by Michael Wenssler in Basel, c. 1488. Marginalia suggests its use as a choir book into the 19th century. Tractatus rationis et conscientiae by Mathaeus de Cracovia, printed in Mainz, c. 1469. A Benedictine monk restoring incunabula at the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany, Italy.
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Deleted Web site: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW), partially English version. Oct 20, 2013
Media added. Feb 26, 2013
Media added. Nov 05, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Entertainment - Incunabula. Feb 27, 2012
Media added. Aug 12, 2010
Added "in Europe" in the two sentences that discuss the invention of typographic printing. Aug 17, 2009
Article thoroughly revised. Jul 20, 2006
Article revised. Sep 17, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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